core-lightning/doc/lightning-recover.7.md

lightning-recover -- Reinitialize Your Node for Recovery

SYNOPSIS

recover hsmsecret

DESCRIPTION

The recover RPC command wipes your node and restarts it with the --recover option. This is only permitted if the node is unused: no channels, no bitcoin addresses issued (you can use check to see if recovery is possible).

hsmsecret is either a codex32 secret starting with "cl1" as returned by hsmtool getcodexsecret, or a raw 64 character hex string.

NOTE: this command only currently works with the sqlite3 database backend.

RETURN VALUE

On success, an empty object is returned, and your node is restarted.

AUTHOR

Rusty Russell <rusty@blockstream.com> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO

lightning-hsmtool(7)

RESOURCES

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning